On shell, I pipe to awk when I need a particular column.
This prints column 9, for example:
... | awk \'{print $9}\'
How can I tell
When you want to do a range of fields, awk doesn't really have a straight forward way to do this. I would recommend cut instead:
awk
cut
cut -d' ' -f 9- ./infile
Added space field delimiter due to default being a tab. Thanks to Glenn for pointing this out